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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

—John Cheever

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Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.

—Vivian Mercer

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

—Joseph Campbell

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Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare.

—F.H. Hedge

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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

—Steven Wright

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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

—Joan Didion

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In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness and enlarge his vision not only of himself, but also of the universe in which he lives.

—Ann Faraday

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I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.

—M.C. Escher

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Just a week before he was assassinated, Abraham Lincoln had a dream that he discussed with several people. It seemed that he was walking through the silent White House toward the sound of sobbing. When he entered the East Room, he was confronted by the sight of a catafalque covered in black. He asked the guard on duty there who was dead. "The president," said the soldier.

—The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

—Max Beerbohm

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One can write, think, and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

—Evelyn Waugh

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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

—William Dement

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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

—Jack Kerouac

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What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

—Jodi Picoult in The Pact

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Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.

—James Patterson in Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

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